Astronomers are keeping an eye on asteroid 2024 XU9. This 110-foot space rock will pass Earth on 14 December 2024.

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

Scientists believe the cosmic projectile, named after an ancient Egyptian demon, could come very close to our planet on this ...

NASA has warned that a smaller yet mighty asteroid is set to take a closer look towards our home planet on Christmas, here's ...

Meteor strikes are usually associated with mass extinctions, but a new study shows that one meteor strike could have actually ...

Quadrantid meteor shower — the first of 2025 — is set to peak early on Friday. During that time, the shooing stars won't be ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...

Two more asteroids will pass our planet on December 21: the 50-foot (2024 XQ4) at 656,000 miles and the 60-foot (2024 XN15) ...

Scientists have revealed new details about the impact of a massive asteroid that hit the US roughly 35 million years ago. The asteroid, between three and five miles wide, created a giant 25-mile ...

What makes this finding even more remarkable is that 25,000 years prior, another giant asteroid collided ... Earth & Environment, the two asteroid strikes, which formed the fourth- and fifth ...

Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

The day the dinosaurs' world fell apart Splosh! How to make a giant impact crater Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas' Volcanoes can spew enormous volumes of gases into the atmosphere that can ...